The Crippled God by Steven Erikson My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was one good read… 10 books long. Too much to digest. I have to re-read (someday, somewhere later this year or the next) the entire series in order to write a proper review. In short: I Loved it. Capital L. Erikson is ...

Heroes Die by Matthew Woodring Stover My rating: 3 of 5 stars Quick impressions: Refreshing premise, very interesting. The writing is rough and unpolished. I don’t mean “gritty”. I mean untried, uncertain and a little bit uneven. Like the writing of a student. Maybe it is because of the use of soliloquy as an important ...

Willful Child by Steven Erikson My rating: 4 of 5 stars SPACE…it’s fucking big. These are the voyages of the starship, A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing mission: to seek out strange new worlds on which to plant the Terran flag, to subjugate and if necessary obliterate new life life-forms, to boldly blow the… 3.5 stars ...

River of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay My rating: 3 of 5 stars Alright. When I was a teenage girl and later a young adult, I loved G.G. Kay’s books. They were… emo, I guess. Made you “feel all the feelz”. Strong women, dashing young men, teary-eyed tissue laden twisty plots. Beautiful. Fast forward 16 ...

Mitosis by Brandon Sanderson My rating: 3 of 5 stars Another short Sanderson read. The good: It’s free on Audible. And it bridges a gap (both in waiting time for me and story-wise) from Steelheart to Firefight. The bad: Well… the antagonist, for instance. I like the idea of the person/Epic “Mitosis”. But even in ...

Skin Deep by Brandon Sanderson My rating: 3 of 5 stars I still love the concept Brandon poses in Leeds, but this story is very formulaic. Again we start with a short feint, a short introduction hinting at what might have been a story, but actually isn’t. Once again we then veer off on the ...

The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks My rating: 4 of 5 stars I really liked this book. Kip is growing from the whiney boy into a less whiney man. Brent writes his women with strength and depth, a rarity in Fantasy-land. Most twists are predictable, except for the last two. Can’t wait to read book ...

Skin Game by Jim Butcher My rating: 4 of 5 stars Loved it. The book was a more pleasant read than the last 2 or 3 books. It felt a bit like a return to the old books. The heist idea was fun, the twists were nice and twisty, the person picking up the sword ...